001What? Where? What's Where's the Huh? Uh up here. It's always been there watching you, Jen. You didn't know. It's always there. Okay. Oh, do you want me to start? Okay. Um, we are going to call the meeting. If you'd like to sit down, if you'd like to stand, that's totally fine, too. Um, welcome to Tuesday, May 20th, Board of Education regular meeting. Um, if we could call roll, please. Mrs. Knap, Mr. Aila, here. Mr. Bernstein, here. Mrs. Laskkey, here. Mrs. Sears, here. Mrs. Hill here. If we could all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right. Moving on to section C, our
002meeting agenda statement. This meeting is a meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is a time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. I also just want to share that we will be going into an executive session at the end. Um but there will be no further action following our executive session today. Um so we are going to go into our high school seniors. to showcase. I'm going to let Kelly. Yes. So, we have Mr. Janitovich here, the high school principal, um along with some students, I think, to present to us a little bit. Um this year, we kind of changed the format of our board meetings just to have
003um our schools at least twice um throughout the year, bring students and and kind of brag a little bit about what students are doing and what's happening in the buildings. Um and I think it's been awesome to have um students and their families here at the board meetings. So, I'm going to turn it over to you, Mr. Janovich. All right. Thank you for giving us this opportunity. I'm going to have the students come up later. Let them sit down there for this point. Um, senior showcase is is an opportunity to brag about what these students have been doing essentially since first school. Um, a lot of them have been with us since day one of kindergarten. Some of them have come to us their 10th grade year, 11th grade, 12th grade. Um, but they've all
004done fantastic things. The first portion of I do want to just brag about some of the things that the senior class has done. I know we don't always get to take a look at some of the things, but I also want to talk about where they're going and and and what they've accomplished. Um up here, these seniors have taken 141 AP tests. So, when you think about that, the number of tests that they take, we have two National American men scholars and four government recipients. We know the academics is taken care of. Our teachers do a fantastic job with that. Our students do a fantastic job with that. But when you look at our music department, as you can see the success that we've had this year um and solid rating two superior and three
005excellence at the OEMA um awards competition, 10 superior soloists and 10 excellent awards. Our students are taking care of it musically as well. Um I know you come to a small district and sometimes you think about all the wonderful things that are going on and all the music aspects of it. We have small we have not as many kids to fill some of the parts, but they do a tremendous job. um large group are both of them went down to state this year. Um we were a little disappointed with the two um but two means excellence. So when you really think about it that is fantastic and you look at the results of the number of bands and ensembles that were down there. We were up some of the best and it was really cool
006to see how well our team performed in that. And then we had our production this year was fantastic. Um I talk about it every chance I get cool experience. We had kids involved in the dazzle production from the back end to the front end and we had a student from Independence actually win the spirit dazzle awards which was voted on by which is a tremendous opportunity for our kids. Um then you continue on we athletics you know we were valley chin valley conference champions in volleyball softball and track we had postseason honors in girls volleyball was district champion and regional champion. We had a lot of conference MVPs. We had a lot of state qualifiers. We had a lot of Ohio all Ohio athletes. And we're not done. Um I do know some things that
007I can't share yet with some of our spring athletes and some of the accomplishments they've had. So we have a lot more awards coming. So when we talk about those things, you know, those are the easy things to take care of. But what I really wanted to talk about is like where are kids going? Like what are they doing? What do they gain from their experience? And when you hear from the kids, the kids are going to talk about what their experience was. 25% of our kids are going into the healthcare field. 21% are going into business. 12% are going into STEM. So what does that tell you? That we need to make sure that we're really strengthening those opportunities that we provide for our kids, but our kids are taking advantage of it. We
008got 9.5 going into the skill trades. If you look at our career center, the number of kids that have received industry credential from the senior class of 2025 is admirable. We have kids that are going to college with the trade, so they're going to make money while they're in college. kids that are going to work and then kids that have plans to start businesses. So, you can see that we have well-rounded students, but I show this information because this is the area where our kids are really asking and wanting because that's where they're going to. So, that's where we have to support and that's where we have to build and that's where we have to continue to create opportunities for our students. Here's where they're going, right? We have some going into the workforce. We
009have a lot of kids going to some very prestigious universities. Um, I was starting to do the math today and I know George is going to help you get that out there. But for just first year scholarships for next year, we have over a half of a million dollars from the school that they're going to. That's not including the kid things that kids actually earn. Like when I first multiplied everything up, like some kids were earning like $20,000 a year school $3.5 million in cash, right? But then when I did it just the first year, they're getting over half of a million dollars to be able to go to do some of these things. And over the course of their four years, a lot of this is renewable. So, this is what has been created.
010This is done through their hard work. So, really proud of of the work and the places that our students are going to. Um, what do they want to do when they go to couch? You know, what for fun? We got kids that want to join Green Plant. I wasn't there, so I don't know what's exciting about that, but it sounds like they want to be involved in a community, small school opportunity to be around group. We have 11 kids that are going to try to play varsity sports. Um, some of them at very high level, some are getting money. Some of them are saying, "I just want to play band, choir, and music." We got eight of them that are actually going to be involved in some sort of arts after school. When you talk
011about a class of 80 kids, that's 10% of your kids going into some sort of musical field. Again, they want to be involved in clubs and activities, government, leadership. There's a lot of opportunities and things that our kids want to be involved when they get um to the next level. So, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to call the students up at this time. Ella came in. So Ella can come on up. Sabrina and Anthony. So I ask you these questions, right? Because the focus for our year this year and next year, right? We take the senior class, we take them successes. We take an awesome thing that they've done and then we try to build upon it, right? This group got me to take them to New York City. Um something that
012every principal I know laughed at and said, "Why would you go to New York City with a group of seniors?" I said, "If I can take 200 eighth graders, at some point I have to take a bunch of seniors." We went. It was the best experience. It was the coolest ever been a part of. Um, and this year has just been tremendous all the way through. They've been leaders, they've been advocates for that. But what I want to do is kind of stick with our strategic plan and our strategic vision and have them kind of talk about three things. What was the greatest opportunity you had while you're at high school? Like to them from their words, what was their greatest opportunity? Then I want them to share what class were you most engaged in
013and why, right? And then lastly, how has your high school experience helped you cultivate your legacy of excellence? So, I put you guys in random order. You're up first. I prepared some notes. Thank you for having me. I'm a senior here at a few things. It's a picture of me from the biology society. As I mentioned in the environment and biology when asked what my greatest opportunity was at high school and office and working there science major part I took a class called environmental science and that uh inspired me to pursue that and that segment has been impacted. Um I learned a lot that networking is important what field go and especially true fields. So I think that putting myself out there is going to help people professors and biologist and people meet people. [Applause]
014Thanks George. Hello everyone. I'm George. Um the greatest opportunity that I've had is probably taking a bunch of AP courses and having my teachers kind of guide me through stuff that was college in college. So I think kind of start. Another thing that I loved at high school was this club. called heat preventing emergencies and this is about prevention. We go to the middle school and we present uh maybe twice a semester to middle school kids and I just think it's very helpful. It showed me that like being a positive role model is just good steps to take and I keep doing that and hopefully impact younger generations especially in this school. What classes have impacted you as a student? I feel like it's kind of hard to grasp. You have to focus for 40
015minutes and then 40 minutes just going class and it's hard to not zone out every once in a while. So Mr. AP class which is super engaging and the stories that we tell you then told me as a learner and going along with that is more hands off. So like college based learning especially class I chose what I needed to write down and the material instead of just zoning out. So that was just classes 40 to 45 minutes of your day every single day getting a jump start on college searching and what you want to do writing your essay. So that block of time just helped me keep organized. I found out what I wanted to do. Um, I would just like to I would just like to again taking courses was one of it
016was a great accomplishment for me taking all those tests and then also having something outside of high school was great for me because I did competitive dance and I did this for about 10 hours a week and independence allowed me to do this while being academically challenged and being offer. So that was just something passion that was supported outside of school by my teacher ask me about it very impact not only in school but that reach outside [Applause] Hi. Um, if you don't know me, I came to Independence as a sophomore. I had my first year of high school and I tell this to everyone I talk to about it that I felt more and just love uh the teachers and staff at independence in my first two weeks and I ever did a private
017school. The staff, teachers, classes, opportunity, everything here is just amazing and different than anywhere I've ever been. Um my whole experience has been nothing short of absolutely amazing. My experience here fulfill me in ways greater than I could could have ever imag. Um I worried that like coming here being new coming to a smaller school I would kind of have a hard time finding my place but everyone here welcomed me with open arms and just gave me endless support which has allowed me now to be able to say that I'm president of my senior class which is awesome. Um one of the countless opportunities I've received during my time here, but it's definitely what I feel my greatest special because it's allowed me to spark a sense of leadership in myself that otherwise wouldn't have
018had a chance to shine. The curriculum independence is unique, engaging, um, as I said, unlike anywhere I've ever been. Um, I think the most significant class that's taken here would be ASL or American Sign Language. leadership. This course offers something different than a lot of other schools do. Uh you're not just learning about a language and translation from mass English. You're learning about culture, community, and the structure of this class is unlike a lot. And it's very interactive and creative, which has sparked my own passion for um allowing or providing communication access for others and has my interest in speech language pathology which I'll be going to pursue. Um and then for legacy being a part of the graduating class um feels really special. Um independence has uh allowed me to cultivate my impact on
019independence. Um everything I've said before allowing countless opportunities um They've also said like endless support from teachers when you want to be academically challenged when you have things going on outside of school. Like everybody in this building is always here to give their best support and it's really [Music] [Applause] help, you know, just just a small portion of that high school. There was another student that that had the last minute. One thing I wanted to share with that student career center student was made $16,000 this year working in their field while they're maintaining 3.0 and above 2K part two varsity sports um involved in all these activities. Um and it's just an opportunity that that isn't provided in other places. So, um I'm thankful for them to come out. You know, I know this is
020kind of different. I always like May it's a sad time of the year. It's an exciting time of the year. you know, as I said to to one of the students, not one of them, like I thought I'd be more emotional on that last day, right? Like, I'm sad, but I'm not sad, you know? And I said, it's because you live your high school experience to the fullest. You have so many positive memories, but you know that your legacy and your memories are going to continue to push through. You're going to feel it. You're going to know it. You're going to understand it. But you made the most of what you did. These students have made the most of what independent high school. It's all been different. Um, and it's all different opportunities and we
021have, you know, 80 something more kids that that have those same opportunities, but I don't think here. So, um, you know, if anybody's want to come to graduation, can't wait for that. We're all more than welcome graduating class. Thank you. Thanks. [Applause] Thank you, Mr. Janitovich. Yeah, for those of you who don't want to stay, I was going to say those seniors want to head out. Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. All right. Moving on to administrative reports. Um for CBC update, did Mrs. O'Neal send you anything? She did not. She's out of town and will be at our next meeting. Okay, very good. Um Miss Snap, I I have a lengthy update. I will apologize if I'm going to start with something fun because
022sometimes people don't think finance is fun. Uh me too. But this is a shirt that we are doing with our wellness group. And um the logo was created by one of our staff members who won the contest which is really interesting and cool. And we have wellness sellers through our healthcare consortium that we weren't tapping into. And we were able to get them to give us last year's money and this year's money. So this week is wellness week. Every staff member is getting a shirt. We're doing um the wellness walk was scheduled for tomorrow. It's going to cancel because of the rain coming in and we're going to reschedule that for Friday. And we're doing a salad bar lunch for everybody in each building at 11 o'clock tomorrow, which is exciting. They we have a
023wellness journal that we're going to be passing out. And we had smoothies from um I don't remember the name of the company, but it was a company in Brexville, Broadview Heights, that we got smoothies for every staff member on Monday. And then we're also getting magnets for um our healthcare program, one of our online things, so that people know how to reach healthcare when they need it at odd times of the day and night. So, pretty exciting. Hopefully everyone will wear the shirts and embrace the wellness week because um it's a really busy time of year. As a committee, I think we learned it's not a great time to do wellness week in May. So, we'll try to do that maybe October next year. It might be a little bit less uh things going on
024for everybody. So, pretty exciting stuff with that. Um and we appreciate Anthem's wellness dollars and the consortium's wellness dollars to support that initiative. So, and we're looking forward to see what we can do next year with it. Also, in addition to that, with the wellness committee, um, Francine Kaine, our transportation nutrition supervisor director, she was our she is our chairman and she's been really instrumental making sure everyone's aware of what's going on. The other thing we did was challenges, monthly challenges where people got gift cards if they won and they were all uh reasonable challenges like we weren't asking them to go to tough mutter competitions, but drink more water, sleep, things that things that we can do. So, I think everyone embraced the fact that it was doable and we could all participate. So,
025it was a really fun thing for us to bring wellness to the start of it and I'm looking forward to see what that committee can do going forward. Um, now financial stuff which is fun for me and some in the audience maybe. Uh, House Bill 96 bianium budget update. I'd be remiss if each meeting until we get a budget at the state level if I didn't bring it up. Um, currently we're at the Senate for review. They are finished with their testimony. everyone's going through what provisions may or may not stay. Um, and I know we sent out that uh communication talking about how certain provisions could adversely affect independent schools and other schools too across the state. So in that there's some pra property tax reform provisions that they're suggesting. Eliminating fair school funding
026plan which is detrimental to all schools. Capping district cash reserves which would crimp all schools and then expanding public funding for private education. Any mix of these all or some really what will accelerate the timeline of schools coming to local support asking for more help. So, it is it is real important if you haven't if you would please reach out to your local um representatives to talk about how this could really make a lasting impact in a negative fashion to all schools in Ohio and to ours locally. So, um we in addition our last additional operating money was in 2011 with the fixed sum or the emergency levy that was passed. So, we're doing the best we can and we've saved that and we've worked with that and tried to make fiscally smart decisions through
027the process. And if that cap contains 30% or any percentage, that's pretty detrimental to what schools need to do because some schools such as ours, we're we have a plan in place and we have a reason. Levy cycles are built to build reserves in the beginning and you spend at the end. So, it's like a bell curve shape with that. So, uh, the bianium budget is still in in in discussion. Hopefully in the July meeting, we'll be able to speak to what they actually passed and, um, approved. So, June 30th is the end of the current bienium. So, hopefully they'll have that on target for a time frame. That leads us into a capital project fund creation. One of my items you'll see later this evening is to create a capital fund. And what that
028is a capital project fund, it's for the purpose of accumulating resources for fixed assets essentially and for the acquisition, construction or improvement of them. So what we would likely use this for is to be able to think of it as a savings account to put money into it to be able to save for turf replacement in the future, roof replacement, HVAC, really large mechanical or capital projects that we don't have enough in the PI fund to cover. So, um, when that were to happen, and it doesn't mean you would ha it happen right away, um, you have 10 years that you can fund that fund for, and after that, if you haven't used it for the purpose you've designated, you would need to transfer those funds back to the originating fund. Um, so it's purpose
029is to truly act for our purposes, think of it as a savings account to allow us to continually save to get some of these bigger projects in line and plan for them accordingly. Um the uh the only way it can be funded just as an is through general fund or permanent improvement and donations or gifts. So you'll notice the language in there speaks to that and we have to have board authorization to determine the amount of the fund. So the amount of the fund is not determined yet. We will be looking at that as we go through this process. But the first step is to create it and explain the need for it and why we would want to do it. Step two would be to continue to work on our facility master planning, our
030capital project planning and kind of know where we want to put resources at and how much of the resources we can afford to do that. So that's the capital projects fund sources also on my area tonight which is our insurance coverage for liability fleet and cyber insurance. This is just our annual premium just like your car insurance or homeowners insurance. Um, however, I will be asking the board for an appropriation measure in June to begin it on a prepay. Sorsa would prefer prepayment of insurance versus um, paying in July, the month it's effective. They'd like to see that payment before July 1. So, we'll end up having two payments this fiscal year for insurance premiums and going back to one after that. And the premium, you'll notice, did go up five and a half% and
031that's due to the district valuation increasing um, and our assets increasing. So as that happens, they adjust the premium accordingly just like our own insurance personally. And then connect, which is our ITC, which is information technology centers, we're looking to do a three-year contract with your approval tonight. Um that locks in their current pricing structure for the next three years. And for those of you that don't know what ITC's do, they support our district in so many ways, honestly. But it's infrastructure, technology support, it's fiscal support, student services support, library support with software platforms, services, and assistance. So, um, in our realm when we don't know what's happening with our state software, they're the ones that help us figure out like the bumps and the bruises along the way. So, um, we're looking forward to
032doing a three-year contract with them. Then I have my five-year forecast on which will be an exhilarating presentation that you're all looking forward to in just a few minutes. I know. Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Kogan. Okay. Um you'll see on the board agenda that there is a um purple star congratulatory letter that was sent to us. Um the high school has now um also earned their Purple Star designation for our military families. So, they are joining the middle school. Uh it is a three-year award. and then you reapply for it at the end. Um, and basically the criteria states that you have a dedicated spot on your website where you offer resources for those um, students and families um, where milit where they're in like a military family or they're are changing. Some
033of the other stuff is um, easy access for students to enroll in your district um, and if they're parent is um, active in the military and they have to move um, that if they're staying here with someone else that they can stay in the district. um it just makes it a lot easier for them. Um so very proud of our high school for that designation as well. Um the uh Ohio State, sorry, yeah, the Ohio State test scores were released. Um we're still waiting on our ELA scores. Um I was kind of hoping they'd be out today. Um but just wanted to note the scores look um as always really good. Um one of the ones that um I'm kind of looking at is our algebra passing score, algebra 1 this year was 91%. Um
034last year's it was 77%. So that's quite a a jump in our algebra 1 score. So um we'll be kind of taking a deep dive and and looking at that. Um some other things to kind of highlight. Um our fourth grade math teachers are killing it over there at IPS. Uh 93% of those students um scored um proficient or above. So um and then our uh high school American history and government are both at about 95% and 90%. Um the rest of the scores, you know, kind of look like what they have been around the 85 86%. Um obviously we won't have the growth met metrics yet. You know, those are always a year behind and that'll come out in the fall of next year. So historically we always do really well achievement wise. Our
035concern is always a little bit of that growth um from year to year. So we'll continue to look at that. Um, which leads me to uh some of the work we've done this year as it relates to growth and focusing on our curriculum um and making sure that we have um you know highquality curriculum materials. So in June I will be bringing a recommendation to the board um to approve the adoption of the bridges bridges math program which is we'll use for our K through five students. Um we had a math committee that was made up of teachers. Uh we went and visited a school that is implementing bridges. We had the rep come in and talk to us. So really excited about that. Um we're waiting a little bit. We're still trying to make
036some determinations on middle school um and and what program we're going to use with that. So I'm hoping I'd have more clarity by June as far as what that program will be. Bridges only goes through grades five. So then you look at a a partner um curriculum to adopt with that. Um, and also I'll be bringing to you the recommendation for our science curriculum for our maps. Um, those teachers, um, preK to 12 have been working with Missy Zender out of the ESC of Summit County. Um, they've created their, um, focus units for the year and they're building their resource kits for that. Um, focused on hands-on um, opportunities for our students with science. So, I'll also be bringing that information to you as well. Any questions on those things? Okay, thank you very much.
037Um, we are at section F, public participation. It is the policy of the Independence Board of Education to hear public comment at board meetings. The public is invited to speak to any of the agenda items or other school topics. At this time, comments should be limited to three minutes. And if you'd like to share anything, you can head up to the podium so that we can hear you nice and clearly. Okay, we'll move on from public participation. Section G, approval of the minutes. This is a portion of our consent agenda. Um, approval of the April meeting minutes. Um, these would be from our special meeting on April 7th and our regular board meeting on April 15th. Do I need to call roll or no? And sorry, not until we go to the end. Okay. Sorry.
038And then do we want to do um can we move superintendent recommendations up before the five-year forecast? Sure. Can we do that, Jen? Yeah. Jen, is that okay with you? I'm sorry. Would you be okay if we moved up the superintendent recommendations before you? Is that okay? It gives you a minute to set up. Not that we don't want to hear what you have to say because it's riveting, but riveting. It is. It is truly. Okay. Um, go ahead, Mrs. Go. Okay. So, we're going to move up to superintendent recommendations. We have a lot of visitors here this evening and I want to be um I want to be able to to recognize that first. So, I'm going to go quickly through and then we'll go to personnel um for hiring. You see the board
039policies on there for the second and final reading. Um theouou for the Kent State University for this is for a student teaching agreement. We don't normally put these on the board agenda, but Kent is kind of pushing us a little bit, so I'm fine with it. Um basically just says if they give us student teachers, usually there's a a payment that comes through the district that then the teachers receive for taking on those student teachers. Um so we put it on here. You'll see um our contracts. Those are annual contracts for out of district placements. Um so those are being approved for next year. Um, and then the last one, number seven, um, is the fee structure. Um, I know Charlene is working um, with me on after the board meeting tonight when these are
040approved um, to do kind of a um, an outreach to our community to let them know what's happening. So, if you click on the link in there um, for the fee structure, I just want to highlight um, a couple of our changes. Um, our fees, I tried to find out when the last time our fees were raised and um, I can't find that out. There's there's people who I think went to school here and are saying that it's the same fees as when they went to school here. So, um I can't find any document that says that we've ever updated our fees. Um although obviously the cost of the materials have um risen. Uh these are fees that parents pay for consumable materials. So, these aren't fees for like the the textbooks we're going to
041be adopting or things like that that comes out of the general fund. Um these are consumable fees. So, in um K through 2 and 4 through 8, we raised the fees. Um I think it was $78. We raised it to $90. Um in grade three is a hundred and this is because they have $90 plus a $10 recorder fee. Um we all know how important that learning the recorder is um in third grade. So, we'll have that that $100 for grades three. A new fee starting for next year for every student in grades K through 12 is the $30 technology fee and we talked about that throughout the year. Um that is a fee that many districts charge um that handles a lot of the consumable licenses that our students use as it relates to
042technology. This is not unusual for a district to charge this fee. Um I feel like this is something that we should be charging. um everything that we a lot of things that we have have an online component and you you're build each year for the seats and you can't the seats are consumed by the student and then the next year you have to buy more seats that's the best way that I can explain it so that will be an additional fee um that will offset the cost of those programs um and then you see just the regular course fee um some of those have increased those are high school course fees just dependent upon you know what it costs for the consumables within in that class. Um so you'll go through all of those. Um
043and I um athletic pay to participate. That's another big one. Um we uh looked at surrounding districts um districts that were our size. Um districts that were in area, out of area. That was another fee that has not been increased for quite a while. So, um, next year, um, that athletic pay to participate fee for high school students, um, will be $125 per sport. Um, it's a cap of 125 per season. So, we have a lot of students who play multiple sports in one season. They would only pay 125 for the one sport. Um, we do have a family cap of $300. So, if your student played a fall sport, um you know, a winter and a spring sport, the family's going to only play 300. If there's three children and they're all playing, um
044sports, it would cap at $300. Um so, again, and and for middle school, we raised it to $100 for the middle school athletics with a cap of $100 per season and that $300 for the family. Um so, we really didn't raise them a lot. They're minimal. Um, I will say that, um, you know, the treasurer and Brett Deal, our athletic director, have really done a lot of work to be able to show the board what it costs to run a sport. Um, the fees that we're collecting do not even come close to covering the cost that it it it takes to run a sport. Um, when you think about all of the um, fees that we pay for transportation, a lot of districts charge a transportation fee for their um, athletes to take um, buses.
045We do not do that. um the referee costs have increased over the years. Um the uniforms, the the the you know footballs, the helmets, all of those things. Some in some sports the parents pay some of that, but it still doesn't equate to what we're paying um overall for those. So that is an increase. And then you'll see the lunch fees increased. Um, a lot of that is uh is through um you know OD and the in the um the organization that we work with for food services that says here's what we believe you should be charging based upon the cost of things. And so every year Francine goes in and runs the numbers um our food service director. So you see primary school went up to $4 for student lunch and the middle school
046and high school is $4.25. I may or may not have just gone to get McDonald's French fries yesterday for the first time in a long time. Do you know a small fry is $2.79? Small fry. A small fry. I know. I said the same thing. So, I never get a small. You I only get a small, but I was like $2.79. There must be something wrong here. Um so, you know, we're you're going to see these costs each year um increase as the cost of of food goes up. So, any questions on the fees? No. Thank you for your work on that. I know everybody, Jen, Brett, you have done a lot of work to present us those updates and changes and we did our best to gradually work those up so that we weren't
047shocking our families and our parents. So, thank you for the time that you worked on that. Agree. Thanks. Yes. Um there was a couple things I think that we're going to continue to discuss um moving forward for some additional um fees that we have some questions on for the board, but we wanted to get these on so we could get the communication out to families. And um our registration opens July 1st. So we want to make sure these are uploaded into the system. Um next uh we're going to move to the um personnel uh area of the consent agenda. We have a lot of exciting things going on in the district. Um sometimes when change is happening, change can occur quickly. Um it doesn't mean that it's chaos. It just means that it's um change
048and we're going to handle that. Um and we're going to, you know, look at it as an exciting time for the district. So, um couple things that are on the agenda tonight. Um we have a resignation um which I wouldn't have accepted um in any other situation from Mr. Eert. Um but you will see that he is resigning as the principal of the um the primary school. Um and I just want to kind of read a little bit because I I tried to like capture everything so I wouldn't forget anything. But um this evening I'm honored to recommend after the resignation. You can stand up, Mr. E. Come on up. Yeah, you got to stand up. Yeah, as I talk about you. Um for the position of director of human resources and business operations for
049our school district. For the past six years, TJ has served as the principal of Independence Primary School. During this time, he's been a dedicated, visible, and trusted leader known for his calm demeanor. Um except for when he's in his costume. um student first mindset and deep commitment to this district. TJ's loyalty to independence, his strong relationship with the families and the staff, and his steady leadership through times of both celebration and challenge have made a lasting impact at that primary school and in our district. What stands out most about TJ is his unwavering desire to see our district succeed, not just at IPS, but across all buildings and departments. As we continue to implement our strategic vision and realign our leadership roles to strengthen our system as a whole, TJ expressed a strong interest in
050contributing in a broader capacity. He sees this central office role not as a departure from school leadership, but as a way to support all schools, students, and staff more effectively. In his new role, TJ will oversee key functions that are vital to district operations, including human resources, which we have not had, for both certified and classified staff, as well as business services previously managed under the leadership of Tom Drying. His knowledge of our district culture, his understanding of building needs, and his collaborative leadership style will be invaluable assets as we continue to grow and move forward. So pending your approval this evening, I look forward to welcoming TJ Eert to our central office leadership team as the director of human resources and business operate operations where his contributions will continue to strengthen the foundations foundation
051of excellence that we are building together. So hopefully you will all vote 50 for Mr. Eber. I mean I think right um yeah so we're going to move on and then we'll go to the vote and then we'll celebrate all of you. So thank you Mr. Eert. All right. Next, moving on. I'm gonna go with um you know what? Let's go with Miss Hughes since we'll follow. So, Miss Miss Jodie Hughes. So, you get to stand, too. Sorry. All right. Tonight, I am pleased to recommend Mrs. Jodie Hughes as the next principal of Independence Primary School. This recommendation comes after a thorough and thoughtful selection process. We had over 28 applicants for the primary school position. We screened more than 13 applicants for this position. We conducted multiple rounds of interviews and ultimately brought four
052highly qualified candidates to the final round this past Saturday. I want to thank the four IPS staff members who participated in the interview process. Their input was incredibly valuable in helping us make this important decision. We were looking for someone who not only has a strong background in instructional leadership, but also demonstrates warmth, approachability, and a deep understanding of early childhood and elementary education. Based on the staff and family survey, we prioritize qualities such as strong communication, support for staff development, visibility in classrooms and in the community, and a commitment to building relationships with families. Jod brings all of that and more. She currently serves as the director of curriculum instruction and assessment assessment for Chipoah Local Schools, a role she has held for the last three years. Prior to that, she spent six years
053as an elementary principal and instructional coach. Her references described her as student focused, highly relational, and an effective instructional leader with excellent coaching skills and a great sense of humor, which you need at the primary school. Someone who leads with heart and high expectations. Jod is deeply excited to join the independence team and is eager to begin building relationships with staff, students, and families. She will receive a 10-day extended contract to support her transition into the role over the summer. So, pending your approval this evening, we look forward to welcoming Jod Hughes as the next leader of Independence Primary School. So, yes, thank you. Maybe we can't. Well done. All right. Yes. So, I said change and so now we have Haley. Haley, stand up. So Haley is going to be the next principal of
054the Independence Middle School. So we recently concluded a rigorous selection process for this position as well to identify the best fit for this important leadership role. After reviewing a strong pool of applicants, we brought three exceptional candidates to the final round of interviews which took place this past Saturday. I want to express my sincere gratitude to the four IMS staff members um who gave up their time to participate in the process as well. Their insights and feedback were instrumental in making this decision, and I thank the staff for their dedication. The qualities our staff identified as most important in a new leader included strong instructional leadership, a student- centered approach, the ability to build a collaborative and supportive culture, and someone who brings both professionalism and positive energy to the building. And Haley Mueller embodies
055all of those qualities. She is currently the associate principal of AI root middle school in Madina where she has served for the past two years. Prior to that, Haley was both a principal and an instructional coach in Cleveland where she gained valuable experience in leading diverse learning communities. Her references described her as a relationship builder, a champion for students, an instructional leader, and someone who is allin when it comes to school culture and staff collaboration. Haley is excited to join the Independence team and is also eager to begin connecting with the staff, students, and families. She will also receive a 10-day extended um contract so she can run in there and get hit the ground running. So, pending your approval this evening, we're thrilled to welcome Haley Mueller as the new principal of Independence Middle
056School. Oh, yeah. When we go ahead and approve them and then we'll give him a gift. But when we We can't. Oh, we can. Okay. So, we're Oh, because you have to go first. Mhm. Oh, it's all in consent. Unless we pull it out. Well, that didn't work out very well. And let's pull it out. We can pull out. I mean, you can just do a separate vote for the treasures report. Okay. Yes, that's fine. Okay. So, we will So, you're approving items G. And then when's where's person? J. G1, not J though. You're not approving H. Okay. We will be approving G1 I through J. I through J. G1, I through J5. Okay. A motion, please. And then we'll come back. So move. Carry. I'll second. Tony second. Call roll, please. Mr. Aila. Yes.
057Mr. Bernstein. Yes. Mrs. Laskkey. Mrs. Sears. Mrs. So, yes. Congratulations. Motion passes. Yay. So, you want to give them? Yes. We We have a little welcome gift for Jod and Haley. TJ, I don't have anything for you. I get to throw you a piece of gum out of my bag. We're happy you're staying. But welcome to Jod and Haley. So, and thank you so much for being here tonight. And this is from the name. Thank you. Thank you guys. Congratulations. Yes. Welcome aboard. Yeah. And I know you have your whole family with you guys if you need to go. You're Well, we you and we're recording it. So you They'd be running around, right? Yes. Okay. So, we'll continue. I'm sorry. Thank you, Jen. Excuse. Yes. And you can You guys can Oh, yes. Do
058not want to stay. You do not have to stay. I'll just give you the folder right now. They do. We're really We're really throwing it all this back tonight. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. She signed this one. And then here's her coming. Haley and Jody, we do have something that we need you guys to to sign off on really quickly before you head out. Perfect. Who's got a sign? And then TJ. Jod and Haley both do. Make your signatures before anything. Yeah. Sorry. That's all right. No, it's okay. Hit pause. I know. Poor Jen. She had a minute to like set that all up. So, this was good. Nikki goes Nikki goes, "Sorry, Jen. I can't sit through your forecast." [Music] I guess I better get up, too. [Music] [Applause] Did you [Music] So crazy.
059Yeah. [Music] He said seventh grade. I was like that's six years goes by fast. It does. He sent me um so he was friends with those guys we parted with like in college. Okay. I hope this is very much on TV. [Music] Yeah, turners on. And Jen, just so you know, I do think your presentations are riveting. Ron and I think they're very finance. Yeah. So, even though Katie's sleeping like [Laughter] Just want you to know that. Yeah. What's Yeah, it's all right. Just pretend you're karaoke like you were on the cruise ship. How was your cruise, by the way? Good. You have good. Yeah. Good. Good. You're lame. Oh, well, your money's not lame. That's as cool as it gets. You're paying for a cruise. You're good. Oh, your dad went, too. Oh, nice.
060Okay. And your husband? Yeah. He had fun, too. Okay. [Music] [Laughter] Yeah. [Laughter] That's all right. Making memories. That's all right. Things you can't repeat on live TV. That's all right. I'm just glad you came back. Did you go to that? Did you go to the baseball game? Did you go to Houston? Yeah. It's a little weird, isn't it? I did not like it. I know. Why was it Was the dome closed? Cuz it was hot. Was that Oh, they don't. Oh, I didn't. Okay. Okay. You're welcome. All right. You just went to one game. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh, okay. But then the Reds tore up the shrine. Yep. Yes, they did. [Music] sweaters. Where's he? [Music] Do you want me to move this? Can you guys see it? Yes. Okay. So, we'll be moving
061on to letter H. Trevor, my large audience Um, so I'm going to start with the five-year forecast and then we can go back to some of the items that I already spoke about though. Um, just important reminder notes that the forecast only includes the general fund funds like athletics, food services, student activities, state federal funds are not included in it. It's strictly operating funds. And the calendar year 24/ax 25 was the full appraisal year. As everybody knows with their tax bills, it was a significant impact. um not just personally but in estimated revenue amounts too. And recall that in the fall after the five years after November's submitt, I was talking about the huge increase in other operating revenue from a property that went exempt and then from a they went to exempt and had
062back had their delinquent partner went exempt and then we had it. So those were one-time increases that were significant for other operating revenue. not expecting them to continue in that trend. And then House Bill 33, which is the fair school funding plan, under huge scrutiny, intense scrutiny as I spoke about earlier and we'll continue to speak about it and you can see it in the paper. I think every week the plane dealer has actually been doing articles on it in some fashion. So, it's getting a lot of publicity about the importance of school funding and where it should land and what it would look like. So just in a quick summary, uh this chart is a chart you see every forecast and it looks the same every forecast because we're in the down cycle of
063a levy cycle. So you're going to see that the revenue is not keeping up with expenditures and then the cash balance will continue to decline. And obviously in years 27 through 29, those three years are really hard to predict. Those are uncertainties and unknowns. So many things go into those that um they kind of trail off and we're not really sure how accurate you are in those last years. Um and you're going to continue to expect you always will expect your revenues your expenditures to outpace your revenues in the part of the levy cycle that we're in. So there's nothing alarming there. And this is just another line graph showing you the same thing but without the cash balance arrow or a line in it. So you'll see that the revenues are projected to change
064by 1.94% increase but the expenses will project at 3.53%. So you'll see the gold which is expenditures and the blue which is revenue and you'll see the gold outpacing the revenue which again is normal and expected of it. This graph shows you um November's forecast to May's forecast that we're presenting tonight and what we thought and really the trend is the same. the timing changed from the influx of the appraisal money coming in. Some expenses that we thought maybe would go out this year had not gone out this year. Um and so and Kelly spoke to adoptions tonight. Those aren't reflected yet because we haven't paid them yet. So, um that trend the timing has changed a little bit from work to the two forecasts, but it's still the same essential trend in this. The
065other thing about forecasting is just as a note, your November forecast is much more about your budget forecast and your May one is much more about your cash forecast. So that I kind of distinguish them that way. November, we're projecting what we're doing and how it's going. In May, we're kind of recogning factor between the two forecasts. So here it's super small for you guys, I know, but in your in your packets, you saw it. I just want to highlight that fiscal year 6 next year that's a maybe possible for deficit spending but in 27 which is where we've been very solid projection will definitely be indefinite likely I mean I would assume likely to definite be in deficit spending so um that's where we're starting to really get a little bit more concerned and
066you can see the compounding effect on deficit spending in year 2029 is pretty significant so expendure is again projected to outpace your revenue. By the end of 29, our cash balance is projected to decline by 4.8 million compared to 24, which again is we've been seeing as a trend comes through and it changes. Um here they're depending on when your timing of expenses are, did you get the expenses you projected and where your revenues came in? Also, this particular forecast is one of the hardest ones I think any treasur, no matter if they're newer or season has done because the variables going on in the binding budget, the economic policies going on, it is extremely hard to figure out what our supply costs are going to be. Um, for the very first time when we
067ordered the actual wellness books, we had to tear our feet and I'm not seeing that. So things like that are coming into just our environment. So this is a really hard one to project. Um, no, obviously we always say this, but it's true. November, we'll have a better idea where we're standing on economic policy, interest rates. Um, I I saw that the average home mortgage 7% starting now. That's pretty significant. So, I don't know where things will actually land. Revenue growth projected to uh to be greater than historical average, which is great in the audit due to the reappraisal um over the past five years. So, and the other operating revenue remember is mainly tip revenue. That's going to be I think it's the biggest driver of our trend. So, of going and then the
068enrollment uh we spoke about this at I did at state of the schools and I know a gentleman had questioned it and just to clarify I wanted to make sure I brought it up tonight and clarified. So, in years 21 to 24 we lost 60 students and funded students which is not including preschool. So over those three years there's something that occurred and not being here I can't really tell you exactly what happened but that average was 20. So in a in programming in software programming land then we went down to losing 11 from 24 to 25. So I continued to project the trend of the same amount of 11 threeear average was 20 which I think is an anomaly because I you don't see a 41 steep drop except one year and 20 seems
069to be large compared to what happened between 24 and 25. So that's why you see these guesstimates being 11. I just wanted to bring that up so you would know why we did what we did there or why I did what I did there. And Jen, did the Sorry. Did these enrollment projections include preK through 12? No, it does not include preschool. Okay. I'm sorry, I tried to say that, but if you Sorry. No, great. I want to clarify. Does not include preschool. So the preschool numbers would increase. It also doesn't include half half time like uh the career center students are only half times and that's not in the funded one because we're splitting funding so it's a little skewed there too but the funded form like the formula to determine who's funded and
070who's not yeah Jen can I ask you a quick question because I think there's a lot of confusion when people look at that slide do we need to have I mean I recognize that that comes from a system where it's making this like okay you've lost or gained over over time. I just think in it's causing people to be like, "Oh my gosh, you know, your enrollment is going to be that much at that time." And like why are you building like why are you bu like I just feel like that's something that this system is putting into place to say but is that something that like So that question was asked at our town hall and you were saying this is just what we get um in state funding. They were not understanding that
071doesn't include preschool numbers or It does kindergarten though. Yes, it does kindergarten, but also not CBC or halftime because they're not fully, right? So, I think it just got large. You look and we have a large. So, then you just look at that and you're like, "Oh my gosh, you have declining enrollment." Yes. Well, we But this part is factual, right? 20 to 24, right? That's what we have the numbers we know, right? I'm just saying when you go on like that and you're looking at that, you're like, "Oh my gosh, in five years where you're putting your assumptions, though." So it we can talk about that later and how maybe you can make it look in a different formula like in a line graph or something, but I just haven't seen that before because
072I was looking to see if other people like and they didn't. So I'm just trying to figure out is that something that's hard for people to understand? And so sometimes it's like, is that something that it's there? Yes, it informs your assumption maybe, but you know, I'm just I just look at that and I I can see why that guy in the audience was like, why are you building? Yeah, that tells you that you're going to have half the number of students you have now. And we can also do actual and then and then estimated projected, you know, but that that's not you can see if I can get it in two different colors like Yeah. And I think projected is who's projecting that, right? Like they don't know that like like in they don't
073know that instead falls they're building a whole new development and more people are moving in like it's doing it based upon over your numbers right the numbers that you've lost or gained. is doing it based on what we have in right that's but that's doing it based on us just the numbers not the town the community the number of correct I would tell them hey there's a projected development going with 500 homes and we expect 400 students in that right I just I mean to me that just is kind of shocking and I was trying to explain it better tonight so that people could understand it better doesn't school yeah but also maybe including our preschool numbers or including our CBCC DC numbers that could at least give like maybe what I could do is
074add a home like another graph that I make that doesn't come from the system to include and I think it's because it says enrollment, right? And enrollment does not include preschool or CVCC for this for this particular situation. And I can maybe title that better because what happens is people see that as enrollment in our whole district and they're like, "Wow, you guys are low, but you're not counting those kids still come to school. We might not being funded full for them, but they're still have a seat in our building. Well, and this is where you have different data sets coming through, right? Like, and we we know that because we work in it, but we do have different data. When you ask a person and tell me the enrollment, they look at you like
075what enrollment what do you want? You want all enrollment including 23s? Do you want just they call seats? Do you want funded? So I can also try to fine-tune work with them to get different coloring for actuals projected and title that better. That would be helpful. So that way we can maybe Yeah. go through a bit better because the reason you include it is to show why your state funding is continuing to decline. Yeah. Right. Because it's attached to funded enrollment. So as funded enrollment decreases, your state share will increase. And if they take away the 10% cap on the station index, it would really take us down from that 844 number. If that trend continues and really what would be great is in November because we'll have the October count. Does that trend now
076come back up? That would be even better is to see it start coming back up the other way too. So then your your estimated revenues, your general fund revenues here, your local taxes and your other revenue combined to be 89%. So you'll see the heavy reliance again on local share versus state share. And our state share is really just fair school funding plan and it's some roll back reimbursements. Um it's not significant per se compared to the local share of taxes. And it's pretty interesting um how much is business taxes versus personal taxes and they actually have come up with a way to help us get a slide to show you that. So that's a little bit later just showing the reliance on that. So the reappraisal provided an increase in operating revenue. Our property
077values went up 14.4% versus the 8% that was in the last May forecast because it wasn't known to us what it would go up at. Um the decrease in property tax revenue from 24 to 25 fiscal years was from that large from a large unanticipated 1.4 million refund that we talked about earlier and a um then in 2526 you saw a significant bump because we got the property cents and we got the unexpected tax payment tip that was delinquent. So fiscal year 26 next school year will be the first year we see the full impact of the reappraisal on two acts coming at us and hopefully no weird anomalies coming through either but our state foundation coming back to that state funding and why it's important it's under scrutiny in Columbus presently the house pass
078version does not provide for final phase in or updated in cost inputs and if you don't update the cost inputs you're the state's leaving us at cost inputs of 2018 so much seven years of cost or eight years of cost. So to not update that again really doesn't help fund the students the way the formula was designed to do that. Um state support is always vulnerable giving its reliance on the bianium but it's um the reliance is on student enrollment and again that conversation we just had on the funded part. So right now we're getting 8.44 per student. If they remove the 10% and that's only because we're at the 10% minimum. They have to give you 10%. That's how we do the 844 for student number. If they remove that as one of the
079proposals if it comes through we could see that even drop lower. So um it's pretty significant. Then I wanted to show visually the three different versions that he had talked about right now. So on this next slide, this is what's happening on the different if I model the different ones for the different reiterations of the state funding proposals. The orange is the governor's proposal that first came out and the green is our current forecast which is really the house budget and then this blue is what the Senate is talking about with a 30% cap and property tax reforms etc. It would plummet us as you see that the ending cash balance if blue went through as proposed right now. We would be at an ending cash balance of 2 million 29 and green I'm thinking
080it's going to be 5.9 and the governor's budget proposal sorry about the touch screen would have been 6.4 and that's not on the table anymore. So just to visually show you because I think that's a impactful slide to show. Um but currently we have a significant increase in our other revenue for 25. We already talked about all of this this tiff payment um the property going exempt. Also I would anticipate interest to demonstrate a sharp decrease in years 28 and beyond um due to paying off the bond early. um our goal to pay off the bond in 27 when they're callable would take a significant amount of cash out of our balance and that would then remove the amount of interest. So, um I I did project lower interest due to that and then just
081modest increase in fees in rentals which I call soft revenue um because it's not revenue we necessarily bank on to really do a lot with um every every ounce of revenue helps but it's not easy. So for the expenditure side we're looking at salaries and benefits being 76% without the ESC or contracted personnel. And then again our purchase services looks unusually high if you're looking at other districts because most of our contracted personnel is into that purchase service right now. Um and we're working on changing that that um composition up over time. So I think you'll see that be changing over time in the next several years too because as feasible we're looking at bringing on um some of the contractor personnel as direct hires when possible. Our salaries though our our projected rate of
082growth 2.6% which is lower than average or historical average and that's due to the staffing changes that were made last year to this year. Retirements are continuing and we continue to look at trying to align staff as best we can. Um our certified and classified unions graciously agreed to a one-year rollover for 2.5% for next year. So and then I put 2% in for the remaining years. will be in negotiations then late late winter early spring with both unions. Um benefits this is an area that we need to work on. Um fiscal year 25 was a 13% increase in medical and prescription coverage 20% increase in dental and I actually have asked um I've recruited some other health to go out for RFP for dental because a 20% increase on dental and the 13% medical
083we're in a different So our consortium rates us in different categories and we're in the highest category of premium briefly due to our design. So our projected rate of growth was 6.72 which is higher than the average that we've seen and it could even be higher um depending on what our revenue will be in October. So really we need to partner with Justice Star Consortium and our union leadership to evaluate where we are with our options costs associated with the premiums that come into it. Um this is the driver of a large portion of our costs. When it's over three million for a district our size just quite a bit of money to put out to that. So we want to make sure we're getting the most feasible plan design premiums for employees etc. And
084then um at the end of fiscal year 24 when you put in uh ESC contracted personnel we were at 81.5% of our expenditure. So as you've heard over and over and over we are service industry which means 81.5% of our cost is in personel. So it's a huge component for us. Purchase services are continuing to grow. Obviously, contracted instructional personnel continues, but p professional technical services that will need continue. And the number of students and fees for tuition placements have increased over time and are likely to continue to increase. So, even if the number of students doesn't increase, the tuition rates increase on us. So, we still see purchase services growing each and every year. And then the supplies, obviously, we're seeing those increase over time. I mentioned the tariff that I saw for the
085first time coming through on an invoice, which was interesting. Um, and they're hard to predict because they vary year to year based on their inventory levels and what your needs are, what buildings may have. Um, but next year their student consumable supplies are going to go through the 09 consumable fee fund versus the general fund. So, what that means is the fees we collect will go into a fund and that fund will then support what we're spending out in fees and we'll likely have to do a transfer over As Superintendent Koga mentioned, the fees don't cover the full cost. So, there's going to be a deficit there that we're going to have to take in, but we may see that fee amount. I would expect it to be different in some fashion for next year
086change. And that's only 3.35% of our district spend. Then capital and other expenses. These um we we always have diligence working through the facility planning that we've been doing. And also um we do a lot permanent improvement. So, we try not to do as much through the general fund as possible, but creating this capital project fund will also assist depending on the amount we choose as a board to put into that fund. It will at least help to start creating these savings account as I mentioned to get funds available for turf replacement over time, for roofing over time. The roofing projects are really expensive and sometimes you need to do more than one section to make it really stay for the time period that you need it to work for. versus doing them in small
087sections, which is how we're doing it right now as per the funds exist. And then watching the amount of transfers that we're going to need for food service and athletic funds at the end of the year. Then our per pupil expenditure, you'll just see that this is exactly what you would expect. They continue to rise over time as as expenditures outpace revenues. Our daily cost to educate a student is $129 a day. And of our tax income, most of it's coming from the businesses and state support actually for taxes. So our resident property owner taxes 35% of the taxes just but please recall the tax base is local support and then over 60%. Jen, what actually goes what actually goes in to calculate the daily cost? I mean is that um calculation of salaries and
088all that stuff insurance and benefit okay everything utilities okay everything it's everything then just again the red the revenue showing you cash balance going down uh by 27 our cash balance should be around 10.4 And that's a net loss of the deficit spending amount we saw earlier by 29 go to 5.9. Um, but I want to speak a little bit to this because I think this is important to see those cash balance days, number of days of cash on hand. We dropped to 85 and 29, but I'm not sure that that's where we're going to really truly be. And our cash reserve policy says at 90, we need to come up with a plan to proactively address that with time. However, I don't know where our transfers will end yet, and I don't know what
089the banning budget will do. So, in November, if that number in the five-year forecast is still under the 90 threshold of the policy, I will come up with a plan to get that. So, it's not so at 90. So, I recognize that that's what it's showing, but I'm not confident because there's still so many variables this late in the game here with the bianium is not knowing our transfer amount. Um, and our school ending in June versus May with some of the other districts makes it a little harder to project that too. So, where we're at right now, the reappraisal is giving us our modest growth. We're able to push deficit spending. We did not deficit spend in 25 and I'm not sure we're going to do it in 26, but we should be doing
090it in 27 for sure. And then the compounding effect of 2029, if it pushes us under the base of cash, we'll have to address that. That will be So that's where we are. Any questions? I wish you had more zeros at the end of our revenue. That's okay. Put a lot of zero. Can you fix that next time? No. I do have a couple that that insurance that's that's you said that was on the agenda and it was like Yeah, it was like a million and some was it how much was it again? was what's the premium part? Yeah, the premium like do you normally shop around for that or how does that So you you do normally shop around for it but you don't do it annually because then you if you're switching premiums
091annually you can't get your claims data and you'll never have the same experience the loss ratio. So usually it's like every three to four years. Okay. And then the turf which you mentioned which I'm all I think that's we should have been doing this years ago I believe but I'm glad we're doing it now just saving up. Do we do we need anyone to go out there and assess what our lifespan is currently on a turf for do we will okay and I would think that's part of the facility planning process to be honest okay because it's like I would back of my mind I'm thinking like three years left tops but I mean it could be more hopefully if we can squeeze another year out of it but and the capital project fun you
092can only maximum for 10 years for the for the um uses you designate okay so by me designating tonight like roofs HVAC and It's not it's not limited to those, but if for some reason we put the transfer in and we don't use it in 10 years, I'd have to transfer it back to the Okay. And then the the Columbus bianium budget that's June 30th that's going to come out. Okay. So, we'll know by then. Well, June 30th it expires. So, then you would have a budget to operate, but we'll have an answer by then what they're doing or not doing, right? Um I think honestly by mid June it's pretty solidified because they're done with testimony. Now they're just back and forth themselves. Okay. And then Kelly spoke about the curriculum adoptions. I'm just
093curious, does this I'm not saying that you should or if it's a good idea. I'm just curious whether you could or not. Is this does that fall into the five-year $50,000? Like could you take that money out of PI if needed or does it normally come out of PI or does it come out of general? No. Okay. I think every district locally does it differently. Okay. How they want to do it. Yeah. I mean, I think depending on their money, most would take it out of their general funds unless they've got a lot of PI money and they're not spending it. Okay. And in another county that does a sales tax only, it's the only county in the state that does sales tax. A lot of those districts will do it out of PI because
094they have sales tax money. Okay. But it but it does qualify to come out of PI if you so choose to. Could you do a hybrid like half and half or? Yeah. I mean I when I asked Jen that I was very I mean you know with the um you know the 070 account you know the creation of that I'm like well what happens if like we need that access to that money for g like that was my concern. Sure. Yeah. Like you know if we want to do something that is related to curriculum instruction or assessment and there's like a or even like a hiring of a position or something. It's like well if we can't afford that and it's like is that money tied up in there and we can't access that? Now,
095you wouldn't be able to do that for hiring someone, but to Jen's point, you could then look at other things that are coming out of the general fund that could be allocated out of that 070 or the or the PI account because we certainly have a lot of expenses that would meet the criteria of either PI or 07, right? That are general fund expenses at this time. Okay? That if you look at where you're spending it from, we can alter Anything else? Good question, Tony, because that was my question. Well, we're kindred spirits, Kelly, right? Yes. Glad somebody doesn't here. Do you record when I stopped, but we had already,000. Was it NPI that you were moving on to? Do you know? I don't an idea of a year because I can definitely look. I
096just don't. It was shortly after I think shortly after we ended up putting the turf in the first time initially and they wanted to make sure they started to build up front and so I know that at one point there and I just was curious when or I don't know any I have not noticed anything okay remember when it would have been for you know who would know um who was that family living next door to Rick and Mary Dolas Bob Fields. He was the one that was a huge proponent. I wonder if he would have just because I mean they knew there we were going to need maintenance on it, you know, because I remember hearing that but I know that was before I got on the board. I think we talked about it,
097but I don't think anything was ever ever set in stone. The turf was before we got on the board. You and I got on the board, though. No, but I was part of the turf foundation. Okay. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay. It was It was always It was It was I don't I don't think so. I don't I don't think so. Yeah. I mean, we've tal we had talked about it. um going forward so it would build up but I don't I don't think it was ever done. Yeah. Yeah. Let me let me know too please. Um so and then the other thing that I have not mentioned obviously the treasures report which is just our financials from April. Then the 070, the 5-year forecast, the insurance connect three-year. There are three then
098and nows. And just to be clear, the two on Huntington Bank are all my fault. I put the wreck on um when I got the invoice and I didn't I didn't realize it was after it. So that's those two are my my mistake. And the donation is a LED video wall from Parker Hannneathan. Wonder where that's being stored right now. Where is it? I know Dave Synynic was here one evening looking at the looking to just kind of check it out. I don't know where it is. Great question. But we're still appreciative of the donation. Yes. We really appreciate the donation and it will be beautiful. Great addition. It's going to be a great addition. If there are any other questions for the treasures report. Thank you. Thank you. No. Thank you. Can I have
099a motion? Yes. I'm sorry. So move. Second. Carrying Tony. Uh call roll, please. Mr. Va. Yes. Mr. Bernstein. Yes. Mrs. Laskkey. Yes. Mrs. Sears. Yes. Mrs. Hill. Yes. Through consent. And now we are to K. No. M. We already did that. You did yourformational stuff. M um I'm not going to read through all these. Is that okay? Do you want me to read through all of the events? Oh gosh. No. Okay. There's a lot of events coming up for the end of the school year. We're excited. We will be at many of them. It's going to be a good May. Um okay. And uh board member discussion and action. We have our June meetings. um our regular meeting on June 5th at 6 p.m. here in the high school media center. Um and then we
100have our special year in financial meeting June 6th 26 8:30 at 8:30 a.m. at the board office. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Um Okay. Board member comments. I have a letter from Terry McOS and Terry um put in her resignation and the board has already approved it. Um but she called me last night and asked if I would read the letter aloud to the board and it is addressed to independent school system. Um I think she felt like she couldn't be here tonight to read it herself. Um just because she was worried about I don't know it's it's hard. It's weird. She's put in a lot of years. It's hard to move on. So, I think she just wanted to be here, but she couldn't. But she wanted to share a message. So, I am going
101to read her message. Independent school system. I wanted to take a brief moment to express my gratitude and appreciation for the journey the independent school system has afforded me to take. In addition to being a career of over 37 years for me, the independent school system has been a second home and family, too. Thank you for the countless opportunities to grow, to teach, to learn, and to make a difference. Thank you for the trust placed in me, support through challenges, and the celebrations big and small. The relationships built with students, colleagues, families, and the wider community have enriched my me full my full life beyond measure. It has been an honor to be a part of a system so deeply committed to excellence in education and the development of each and every child. As I
102close this chapter, I do so with I pride, affection, and lasting memories. With sincere appreciation, Teresa Machinos aka T-Mac, retirement class of 2025. A very, it was very sweet. So, Miss Mack was my sixth grade teacher. So, she was my basketball coach, so Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, she was my sixth grade teacher. Sixth grade. Yeah. So, she's she's doing great and she's going to be able to be home with her mom now, which is awesome. And she does plan to sub in. That's great. Which is awesome. So, thank you for letting me share that. And we have lots of Hershey kisses to share from her. Um, and now we will move on to um executive session. We will be going in um for consideration for employment. I'm sorry. Um, can we have a motion to move
103into executive session, please? Second. Call roll, please. Mr. Vila. Oh, yes. Mr. Bernstein. Yes. Mrs. Laskkey. Yes. Mrs. Sears. Mrs. Hill. Yes. Time 7:29. Thank you for being here, guys. Do you want some Hershey kisses? Yeah. I have a lot a bag full of so about her retirement. Yeah, she's before she even Yeah.